EXCLUSIVE: FormerCalifornication executive producer Gina Fattore is reuniting with former Showtime programming topper Robert Greenblatt, this time at NBC. Fattore has set up high-concept multi-cultural family drama Holiday at the broadcast network, which she will write as well as executive produce with Dawn Parouse Olmstead (Prison Break) through Universal TV. The project stems from a two-year overall deal Fattore recently signed with Universal TV. Under the pact, she has been helping on the studio’s NBC pilot Mockingbird Lane pilot as well as developing.

Holiday is the story of a large extended multi-cultural family told only through the holidays. It may take planes, trains and automobiles to get to the lake house on Labor Day, the tree lighting on Christmas or the seder on Passover, but when they do, oh boy do temperatures run hot, secrets spill and band-aids get ripped off old emotional wounds. Fattore’s series credits also include Dawson’s Creek and Gilmore Girls. This marks the second NBC sale for Parouse Olmstead this season. She executive produces with Charlize Theron and Beau Flynn NBC’s modern-day Hatfields and McCoys drama created by John Glenn and produced by ABC Studios. On the cable side, she has a first-look cable deal at Warner Horizon. Fattore and Parouse Olmstead are with WME.

17 Comments

Gina is brilliant, funny, and insanely talented. I would watch this show.

G. • on Sep 10, 2012 5:04 pm

Agreed!!!

Billy Madison's Drunk Pool Buddy #1 • on Sep 10, 2012 5:11 pm

This idea sells almost every other season… here’s to hoping it lands this time.

Chloe Metz • on Sep 10, 2012 5:38 pm

LOVE Gina Fattore! Can’t wait to see what she does with the concept.

Della • on Sep 10, 2012 5:43 pm

Congrats to Dawn and Gina. At least NBC is buying something. Not an artist friendly place under this regime.

Anonymous • on Sep 10, 2012 5:43 pm

So is this going to be an anthology series?

Trigger Happy • on Sep 10, 2012 6:08 pm

Love both these gals. Smell a hit here…

Evan Handler • on Sep 10, 2012 7:58 pm

Hooray, Gena!!! We miss you!

Yay!! • on Sep 10, 2012 8:31 pm

Congrats to both ladies. Sounds fantastic!

Glenn Lucas • on Sep 10, 2012 9:01 pm

Well done Gina! Congrats!

kasaja • on Sep 10, 2012 10:15 pm

Nice to know this team has lots of friends but who are they kidding? Can wait for Jeff Bader to figure out how to program this one unless it is a yearly six-episode order to fill out holes on a schedule. Can someone please count out 22 holidays a year that I’m going to want to watch week after week? Year after year? Would have loved to be in the room when they bought this and everybody talked about their favorite holiday when the family yelled at each other!

kasaja-yeah • on Sep 11, 2012 6:30 am

Hilarious! I love reading the premise, the praise, and then the cold reality when one person says “Huh?”. You’re absolutely right, 22 holidays per year will be a relentless mess. But no need to realize that now, during buying-season fever…

David Sobolov • on Sep 10, 2012 11:31 pm

CONGRATS, Gina!!!

WriteBroad • on Sep 11, 2012 11:02 am

This sounds like a terrific idea. What star(s) will anchor this puppy?